With increasing volume of work and these related work and life stresses, challenge is not what you are looking for this week, but simple, yet attainable goals, one that will improve your take home pay!
But wait, what is this all about? Challenges that will bring about growth, stimulate my confidence, help me to find true satisfaction in life. Well, I will like to lay it out for you….
As you grow in your project management career, you want to improve your skills each time, so that you can improve in your productivity and add value to your organization and help contribute to workplace growth.
This challenge is the ability you develop in yourself to always set attainable goals. It is also a habit I want you to inculcate and recommend, firstly to yourself and then to others, when it has proven true and successful in your case, so that you can remain focused and purposeful each time for a very long time.
I will break these challenges into 4 goals
Challenge Yourself to Setting an Attainable Goal
Take a look at your career, and examine the past six to twelve months, ask yourself what can you improve that will enhance your daily working routine? What obstacle(s) do you face that gives you headache and if you have the power, will do everything to make it disappear?
Now, some things are gradually coming to your mind……great, write them down and ask yourself what goal can I set to overcome this obstacle?
That is the first step.
Challenge Yourself to Research Your Goal
Agreed. You don’t know everything, that is why you need to do a simple research. You can use the popular search engines, read opinions of subject matter experts on the obstacles. You could even pick up short articles regarding their experiences, set a goal to read at least 4 or maximum of 5. Write down the suggestions that is relevant to your case and examine how to apply them.
Challenge Yourself to Apply Yourself to These Goals
Remember the 3 stages you need to go through to demonstrate you have the acquired wisdom; Firstly, gather the information into one place. Secondly, study this information and extract the knowledge contained in it. Lastly, associate and apply this acquired knowledge to your daily challenges and apply them meticulously until you begin to see good results, seeing yourself achieving these excellent small results, you prove yourself smart or wise.
Challenge Yourself for the Next Goal
I am sure you have heard this before, that the largest room in the world is the room for improvement. You see how setting and accomplishing a goal just improve your life for the better. Now you need to follow the same cycle again examine another aspect in your life and career and set another goal and follow the same exact steps; the same cycle.
You will be amazed at the results doing just simple stuffs.
Keep A Scorecard
Your diary, work notepad or the note app on your mobile phone could be used to record these progressive goals you attain each week. The more you achieve your set weekly, monthly or annual goals, you will become more happier, you will have confidence to deal with stress, you will be more confident in yourself and be willing to help others as well.
Professionals compete with themselves; do you know their secret weapon? They are always setting attainable goals. I know you have started before, but along the line something happened. Please get back on track, prove to yourself you are more determined than ever and now; goal oriented.
Each time, work from obstacles to research, apply acquired knowledge, achieve set goals and start another goal.
This will bring you outstanding growth, personal confidence, career promotion, expansion and other excellent results.
I therefore challenge you to start today, and tomorrow you will be grateful you did the right thing.
Your goal to complete this article is very well commended….now let’s go and prove once again you are goal oriented!